Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 17:17:35 -0600
From: Bill Morgan <wwmorgan@mail.ilstu.edu
Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for January

A few minutes ago, I posted Hardy's "Winter Night in Woodland" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for January 2003. This month's discussion will be the first in a series dedicated to a group of Hardy poems from the1920's that seem to aspire to a kind of narrative neutrality. I invite your contributions to a month-long on-line conversation about the poem.

You can find the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion by following the links from the main TTHA page at

http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm

or by going directly to

http://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS

Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month site, you will encounter a program called WebBoard, which will give you the opportunity to read the poems as well as any comments they may have generated, compose a response, preview your response, edit it further if you wish, and then post it by using the button labeled Post the Message. If you are composing an intricate or long response, you may want to prepare your message in a word processing program, then copy it to your clipboard before pasting it into the message area of WebBoard. And if you prefer, feel free to send me your contribution as an e-mail, and I will post it for you:

wwmorgan@ilstu.edu.

Besides this month's discussion, a full year of conversations in 2002 about Hardy's sonnets are available at the site: April ("Hap"), May ("At a Lunar Eclipse"), June ("She, to Him, I-IV"), July ("Her Reproach" and "Her Confession"), August ("To an Actress" and "To an Impersonator of Rosalind," September ("In the Old Theatre, Fiesole," "Rome: On the Palatine," and "Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter"), October ("Embarcation" and "Departure), November ("The Pity of It" and "Often When Warring"), and December ("We Are Getting to the End" and "Thoughts from Sophocles").

The discussions of Hardy's memorial and holiday poems from August 2001 ("The Last Signal"), September ("Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius" and "Shelley's Skylark"), October ("At a House in Hampstead" and "At Lulworth Cove a Century Back"), November ("To Shakespeare: After Three Hundred Years"), December ("Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden" and "George Meredith"), January 2002 ("A New Year's Eve in War Time"), February ("The Oxen"), March ("A Drizzling Easter Morning") are also posted at the site and open for contributions until sometime later in the year when they will be published in *The Hardy Review*.

The discussions of poems with female narrators ("The Dark-Eyed Gentleman," "She At His Funeral," "Her Confession," "Tess's Lament," "The Pine-Planters," "The Pink Frock," "The Beauty," "I Rose and Went to Rou'tor Town," "An Upbraiding," "The Chapel-Organist," "A Sunday-Morning Tragedy," and "A Trampwoman's Tragedy") will soon be published in *The Hardy Review*, V.

All of the older discussions will remain posted at the site until such time as they are edited and published in either *The Hardy Review* or in one of TTHA's Occasional Papers.

The discussions for February, 1998 through November 1999 have been "closed" and their contents edited and published in *The Hardy Review* [I:1(July 1998) and 2:1 (Summer 1999)]. Likewise, the conversations from 1999 about the "Emma" poems have been published as the second of the TTHA Occasional Series. And those concerning "Channel Firing," "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses," "After the Visit," "To Meet, or Otherwise," and "A Singer Asleep" have been published in *The Hardy Review*, III (Summer 2000). The discussions of "Nature's Questioning," "The Mother Mourns," "The Subalterns," "The Lacking Sense," "In a Wood," "To Outer Nature," "June Leaves and Autumn," "Wagtail and Baby," "On a Midsummer Eve," "Afterwards," "Shut Out That Moon," "The Last Chrysanthemum," "The Year's Awakening," and "The Night of the Dance" have been edited and published in *The Hardy Review*, IV (Summer 2001). All of these publications are available free or at a discounted price to TTHA members and may be ordered by others using an on-line form available at the main TTHA page (see the URL above).

Happy New Year, and welcome to the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion for January 2003.

cheers,

Bill Morgan

Marta-- the Cambridge Conference Order Form is on TTHA's News page:

http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/updates.htm

See you there!

Best,
Rosemarie

LIFELINE THEATRE PRESENTS THOMAS HARDY'S FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

Sweeping romance set in Hardy's fictional Wessex, England Lifeline Theatre's 20th MainStage season continues with a world premiere adaptation of Thomas Hardy's FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD. Hardy's romance features Bathsheba Everdene, the heir to her uncle's farm. She is the mistress of her own fate until love comes calling. Comedy and tragedy ensue as she is pursued by three determined suitors.

The cast is headed by Lifeline ensemble member Jenifer Tyler as Bathsheba Everdene. Tyler earned a Jeff Citation for her portrayal of Jane Eyre at\ Lifeline. The remainder of the cast includes Lifeline ensemble members Patrick Blashill and Peter Greenberg, each of whom have appeared in numerous shows at Lifeline, Katie McLean, Ed Pierce, and making his Lifeline debut is William Smillie.

The designers are set designer, ensemble member Alan Donahue; lighting designer, ensemble member Kevin Gawley; costume designer, ensemble member Elizabeth Shaffer; sound designer Victoria DeIorio; fight choreographer, Ned Mochel. The dialect coach is Ann Wakefield and the stage manager is Jessie Walter.

Sara Lee Foundation is the Exclusive Sponsor of the 2002-2003 season. FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD is generously supported by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation and The Grover Hermann Foundation.
PREVIEWS: Fri. 2/14 & 21 @ 8pm; Sat. 2/15 & 22 @ 8pm; Sun. 2/16 @ 5:30p
Tickets are $12.
PRESS PREVIEW: Sunday, February 23, 2003 5:30pm
OPENING : Monday, February 24, 2003 7:30pm followed by a reception

Call 773-761-1772 for press and opening reservations.
REGULAR SCHEDULE: Feb. 28 - Apr. 20 2003 Ticket prices are $20
Student/Sr $16
Fri. @ 8:00 pm; Sat. @ 8:00 pm; Sun. @ 5:30pm.
Day of show rush tickets are $10: starting 1/2 hour prior to show
time.

FOR TICKETS CALL THE LIFELINE BOX OFFICE AT (773) 761-4477.
www.lifelinetheatre.com 0r www.ticketweb.com Lifeline Theatre is located at 6912 North Glenwood, Chicago. For evening shows, Lifeline Theatre offers free shuttle service to and from the Trilogy parking lot, which offers free parking until midnight at the corner of Glenwood and Estes three blocks directly north of Lifeline. There is also street parking available. The theatre is located one block from the Morseel stop. Lifeline is wheelchair accessible.

http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Links/linksone/Links.htm

Some months back Philip kindly accepted a directorship at TTHA and has been working ever since to effect the transfer of LINKS to Lakehead from its old site at NYU at Fredonia (originally at Yale). We hope you will bear with any current glitches that might arise during this migration and welcome all and any suggestions for changes and improvements to the LINKS facility which currently sports constantly updated links, evaluations and indexed
references to over 300 Hardy-related websites.

With warmest thanks to Bob for his years of devoted care and attention to LINKS and the deepest appreciation to Philip for taking on guardianship of this "firstborn" -- proud issue -- of The Thomas Hardy Association.

Long May it Thrive!

Cheers,
Rosemarie Morgan
(President)

Birgit Plietzsch (TTHA Internet Advisor)

Dear All

This is to say that the Members' Research Resources Page is back online. You can access it the usual way by following the link "Members' Research & Resource Page" from the TTHA front page. The main purpose of taking it offline yesterday was to upgrade access restrictions. Please note that you will require a new username and password in order to be able to access the Members' Research Resources page. Rosemarie will provide all TTHA members with a username and password shortly.

One thing you will notice when you click the link to the Research Resources page is that you will not automatically be directed to another webpage, instead you will get a dialogue box asking you for a username and password. Only after you have entered these and clicked "OK" will you be allowed access to the webpage.

Various, but not all operating systems will offer you to save the password. Until further notice I would like to advise you NOT to select this option but to reenter your username and password when asked for it. You will be asked for these details once per browser session, so after you have entered them you will be able to move freely between the various sections of TTHA's website without being prompted for them again.

Username and password are case sensitive. Should you enter anything incorrectly you will receive an error message that you are not authorised to view these pages. If this happens, close your browser and open it again
before you reenter the details.

Should you experience any technical problems, please feel free to get back to me privately (bp10@st-andrews.ac.uk).

Best wishes

Birgit Plietzsch
(TTHA Internet Advissor)

Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:25:06 -0500
From: Robert Schweik <schweikr@localnet.com
Subject: Fwd: North American Victorian Studies Association

The following announcement from the North American
Victorian Studies Association may be of interest to some
members of the Hardy Forum.

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From: North American Victorian Studies Association
<navsa@PURDUE.EDU
To: ELCS-L@listserv.utoronto.ca
Subject: North American Victorian Studies Association

Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:32:16 -0500
[Please forgive cross-postings.]

Announcing

The North American Victorian Studies Association

The North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) is being formed to provide a continental forum for the discussion of the Victorian period, to encourage a wide variety of theoretical and disciplinary approaches to the field, and to further the interests of scholars of the period within such larger bodies as the MLA, the AHA, and ACCUTE. Our goal will be to provide a more visible forum for Victorianists in the profession: encouraging press and journal editors to participate in our annual conferences; facilitating the networking of Victorianists across regional and national boundaries; forging contacts with other national Victorian groups, such as the British Association of Victorian Studies; and initiating web-based archival projects that make Victorian texts more easily accessible to members. We enthusiastically invite our fellow Victorianists in all fields to join us.
Working whenever possible in collaboration with regional Victorian studies associations, NAVSA will sponsor an annual conference, which will occur at various locations across the United States and Canada. NAVSA will also offer two annual prizes, one for the best essay published in the field, and a second for the best paper presented at its annual conference by a graduate student. Members of the association will receive reduced rate subscriptions to the journal Victorian Studies and will have access to additional material to be made available on the NAVSA web space, including a directory of members and a still-to-be-established archival feature on the model of Romantic Circles.

The association will be launched with a grand inaugural conference, hosted by the Victorian Studies Program at Indiana U, on October 17-19, 2003. The conference will include plenary addresses by Nancy Armstrong, Garrett Stewart and Judith Walkowitz as well as seminars on work in progress by James Eli Adams, Amanda Anderson, James Epstein, and Herbert Tucker. Exhibitions are scheduled at the Kinsey Institute and the Lilly Library. Panels will be sponsored by INCS, MVSA, VISWUS, the Dickens Project, RSVP, and the Historians of British Art, among other groups. A call for papers will be issued shortly. Members of NAVSAâs Advisory Board will be elected soon after the 2003 conference. That body will seek to discuss ways of improving the position of Victorianists in academia today, =/and will also serve to direct the future of NAVSA itself. The organizationâs first Executive Council is an ad hoc group: Emily Allen, Purdue U; Michael Eberle-Sinatra, U of Montréal; Dino Felluga, Purdue U; Cannon Schmitt, Duke U; Melissa Valiska Gregory, U of Toledo; and, as ex officio Victorian Studies members, Ivan Kreilkamp and Andrew Miller of Indiana U. Over the next few years, an entire Council (except for ex officio members) will be voted into position by the NAVSA membership. More information can be found at

the organizationâs website:
http://www.purdue.edu/NAVSA

Members of NAVSAâs first Executive Council eagerly invite suggestions about the organizationâs composition and aims; questions and comments can be sent to the following e-mail
address: navsa@purdue.edu.
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Robert Schweik
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schweikr@localnet.com

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As well as by the following organizations:
The Dickens Project, the Historians of British Art, INCS, the Midwestern Victorian Studies Association, and the Victorian
Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States.

Special exhibitions and tours arranged by the Kinsey Institute and the Lilly Rare Book Library

THE NORTH AMERICAN VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (NAVSA) has been established to provide a wide-ranging forum for the discussion of the history, literature, art, and culture of the Victorian period. Our goal will be to further the interests of Victorianists in the profession: encouraging press and journal editors to participate in our annual conferences; facilitating the networking of Victorianists across regional and national borders; and initiating web-based archival projects to make Victorian texts more easily accessible. Annual conferences will bring together Victorian scholars from across the United States and Canada.

We are accepting proposals for panels and for individual papers on all subjects within the study of Victorian history, literature, art, and culture.

Hard Copy Paper Proposals (200-400 words) and one-page CVs by April 14, 2003 to

NAVSA conference
Andrew Miller and Ivan Kreilkamp
Department of English
Ballantine Hall 442
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405

Please do not send complete papers. Include your name, institutional and email addresses, and proposal title in the cover letter that accompanies the proposal; do not include your name on the proposal itself. Finished papers should take 15 minutes (20 minutes maximum) so as to provide ample time for discussion following each panel. Direct queries to ahmiller@indiana.edu or ikreilka@indiana.edu

Conference Website:
http://www.purdue.edu/NAVSA/Conferences/2003/2003Conference.html

NAVSA website:
http://www.purdue.edu/NAVSA

NAVSA email: navsa@purdue.edu

*Writers and figures who span the transition OR whose first works or last
works appear during this period
*Disappearing and/or burgeoning genres, literary movements
-between sensation fiction and new woman fiction
-between realism and aestheticism
-Pre-Raphaelitism and decadence
-the influence of French realism
-the impact of working class writing

Papers that challenge any of the easy distinctions above are particularly encouraged.


Please send 1-2 page abstracts, a CV, and contact information to
lhager@english.ufl.edu or
Lisa Hager
Department of English
4008 Turlington Hall
PO Box 117310
Gainesville, FL 32611-7310

Deadline for all submissions is March 15, 2002.